Kevin Ayers, 1975
Electric Light Orchestra, 1971
Tonight
David Bowie, 1984
Rocks Minimalists
Man Jumping, 1985
Town & Country, 2003
Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings, 2002
Horse Lords, 2017
Not Cool
Midnight Oil, 1987
The Velvet Underground & Nico
1966
hibernation listening
Eric Dolphy, 1963
diorama of disaster
Lou Reed, 1979
hibernation listening
Juana Molina, 2013
Both Yes, and Yes
Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman, 2018
Yes, 2019
come night
Loren Mazzacane & Suzanne Langille, 1991
hibernation listening
Field Music, 2012
the Objective Flaws of Memory
Aphex Twin, 1998
Nitrogen (aka Richard H. Kirk), 1998
Squarepusher, 1998
Plastikman, 1998
Mouse on Mars, 1998
µ-Ziq, 1998
Scorn, 1998
Autechre, 1998
proto-punk street-cred
Yoko Ono, 1973
Concept 96
Richie Hawtin, 1996
Thomas Brinkmann / Richie Hawtin, 1998
Mecca Normal
Mecca Normal, 1996
2-Foot Flame, 1995
Jean Smith, 2000
a formal introduction
A primer of sorts, broken into loose categories, ino the wide world of NYC’s avant champion, John Zorn.
MASADA
GAME PIECES
JAZZCORE & AVANT ROCK
IMPROVISATION
EXOTICA & NEW ROMANTICISM
FILM SCORES
ORCHESTRAL & CHAMBER WORKS
AVANT COMPOSITION
and i still miss you
"All the things I hate in this fucking world haven't gone away"
"Tomorrow, if I haven't lost my mind,
I'll beg to borrow all the words I can't define"
Mika Vainio, RIP
Pan Sonic, 1996
Mika Vainio, 2008
Black Unity
Pharoah Sanders, 1972
Simon Fisher Turner
SFT, 1996
Bad Dream, Fancy Dress, 1988
SFT, 1999
Simon Fisher Turner, 2005